CVE-2015-8242: Apple iPhone OS

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The xmlSAX2TextNode function in SAX2.c in the push interface in the HTML parser in libxml2 before 2.9.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information via crafted XML data.

Affected products

• Apple iPhone OS: up to and including 9.2.1
• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.3
• Apple tvOS: up to and including 9.1
• Apple watchOS: up to and including 2.1
• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only; version 15.10 only
• HP Icewall Federation Agent: version 3.0 only
• HP Icewall File Manager: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only
• Xmlsoft LIBXML2: up to and including 2.9.2

Published 2015-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.